{"id":18,"date":"2025-09-12T09:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T08:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:48:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:48:51","slug":"don-nordberg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/?page_id=18","title":{"rendered":"Don Nordberg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DN-2019-1024x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19\" style=\"width:284px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DN-2019-1024x800.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DN-2019-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DN-2019-768x600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DN-2019.jpg 1057w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>author<\/strong> |<strong> editor | imposter-philosopher<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Chicago and settled in Britain many years ago, Don has been a journalist \u2013 mainly at Reuters \u2013 living in four countries and working in dozens of others on assignment in reporting, editing, and executive positions. He has worked as a management consultant and business strategist, before &#8220;retiring&#8221; to academia, where he held professorial roles and taught corporate strategy and governance and financial journalism. He is now <a href=\"https:\/\/staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk\/display\/dnordberg\">Emeritus Professor<\/a> at Bournemouth University in Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has written two books on corporate governance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/41SsuSe\">Corporate Governance: Principles and Issues<\/a><\/em> (Sage, 2011)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4miHOPp\">The Cadbury Code and Recurrent Crisis<\/a><\/em> (Palgrave, 2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>His first novel, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/?s=flhttps:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/donnordbergwriting\/p\/update-where-to-buy-the-fleetwood\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/?s=flhttps:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/donnordbergwriting\/p\/update-where-to-buy-the-fleetwood\">The Fleetwood Half-Orphan Asylum<\/a><\/em>, is published by Stourbend Editions, via  BookLocker.com.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/donnordbergwriting\/p\/update-where-to-buy-the-fleetwood\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"409\" height=\"646\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40\" style=\"width:215px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image.png 409w, https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-190x300.png 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>He studied literature and philosophy at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (BA, with High Honors and Distinction, MA); business administration at the University of Warwick (MBA, with Distinction); management studies at the University of Liverpool (PhD); and creative writing at the University of Exeter (PhD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His academic research ranges from corporate governance to organisation studies to literary theory, writing <a href=\"http:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0857-7106\">papers published<\/a> using theoretical bases from economics, sociology, psychology, political theory, anthropology, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now he writes two Substacks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Don Nordberg (is\/on) Writing &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdonnordbergwriting.substack.com%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7C%7Cde8afdafad074f03f8f208ddf15315b0%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638932061351028242%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=8%2FjLw3t9CNL2FrHsNiAljrPIqdqg6D0kO2AfqGkhBW0%3D&amp;reserved=0\">donnordbergwriting.substack.com<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">How to govern [<em>not like that<\/em>] &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdonaldnordberg.substack.com%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7C%7Cde8afdafad074f03f8f208ddf15315b0%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638932061351057591%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=NSTuAMNxoOpj5ocYDHdtVggDKV1dThcu7JAySLG4kUQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\">donaldnordberg.substack.com<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author | editor | imposter-philosopher Born in Chicago and settled in Britain many years ago, Don has been a journalist \u2013 mainly at Reuters \u2013 living in four countries and working in dozens of others on assignment in reporting, editing, and executive positions. 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